Pinole News

College scholarship announced: EssayEdge has launched its Tell Your Story essay contest, which will award a grand prize of $1,000. The contest will run through Dec.

The Pinole Redevelopment Agency has agreed to sell a parcel next to the Kaiser Permanente medical office building on Pinole Valley Road for just over $600,000, or just over three times what it cost the agency to acquire it and get it ready for sale to a developer, officials said.

The special-needs students in an after-school program at the George Miller Center in Richmond have taken community service to heart since holding their first coat drive for the needy a year ago.

The woman who called 911 to report the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl at Richmond High School was honored Tuesday night for her "act of humanity." The Richmond City Council commended Margarita Vargas, 18, for calling authorities when she learned of the Oct.

A firefighters' salary-and-benefits package is on the agenda of Wednesday's board meeting of the Rodeo-Hercules Fire District.

Motorists passing through town on Main or Franklin streets Saturday and Sunday were fortunate enough to get stuck at the railroad crossing and witness a "train" of 23 unconnected vintage track speeders.

The West Contra Costa Unified School District board will host a meeting Saturday with officials from Richmond and neighboring cities as part of its ongoing response to a violent gang rape last month at Richmond High School.

Ballots for a three-year West Contra Costa teachers contract will be recounted Tuesday, after an earlier tally showed it passing by nine votes.

Any plans John Robak had for his future changed dramatically in 1944. An injury sustained in battle during the Allied invasion of Normandy Beach on D-Day left Robak paralyzed for the past 65 years.

Some Hercules residents are calling for a more open city government, complaining that City Council meetings are long on ceremonial matters while much of the business of the city gets conducted out of public sight.

Share + Nov 6, 2009 12:19 pm US/Pacific RICHMOND A sixth suspect has been charged in connection with the Oct.

The Pinole Historical Society is stepping things up this year, after attracting more than 500 people to its first Veterans Day Memorial and Flag Retirement last November.

The tradition of the debutante ball will be carried on this month by the San Pablo-based Iota chapter of the national Beta Pi Sigma Sorority Inc.

The 21-year-old Richmond man, whose name wasn't immediately released, was taken into custody at about 6:30 a.m. by the Richmond police SWAT team, said Lt.

The Rodeo-Hercules Fire District board has condemned member Bill Prather over an alleged discriminatory remark against women that someone reported overhearing in a bar.

The boys, ages 15, 16 and 17, were among five suspects that had been arrested in connection with the crime as of Wednesday.

Police have now arrested five people in the rape of a 15-year-old girl in Richmond.

The Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office has charged four of five people arrested in connection the two-and-a-half-hour gang rape of a 15-year-old girl during Richmond High School's homecoming dance Saturday night.

Five suspects were in custody early Wednesday in northern California in the gang rape, robbery and beating of a 15-year-old girl outside her high school homecoming dance, KTVU.com reported.

Three suspects have been arrested in connection to the rape of a 15-year-old girl outside of her high school homecoming dance Saturday, bringing the total number of people in custody in the case to five.